Maureen Revait reports: BlackburnNews.com has learned personal information of staff members at the Greater Essex County District School Board has been accessed in a possible data breach. An email that was sent out to staff was sent to BlackburnNews.com anonymously. It says information such as the names, dates of birth, social security number and direct deposit…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: £650 fine for former nurse who snooped in patients’ records
There’s an update to a breach first noted in July 2016. The Milford Mercury reports that the nurse, who was sacked after ‘inappropriately accessing’ more than 3,000 patient files over a two-year period, has admitted breaching the Data Protection Act. Sixty-three-year-old Elaine Lewis, from Llansteffan, appeared at Llanelli Magistrates Court today (Friday, March 3). She admitted…
Data firm behind Trump victory hits back at Brexit data breach allegations
Karen Gilchrist reports: The data analytics firm employed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign team has hit back at allegations that it may have breached data protection rights during the U.K.’s EU referendum. Cambridge Analytica came under fire over the weekend after it was cited at the center of a probe by the U.K.’s data privacy watchdog…
Under the right to information law, Aadhaar data breaches will remain a state secret
All one billion Aadhaar records could be hacked and stolen, and the government wouldn’t have to disclose it or answer any questions about it? Anumeha Yadav explains that Section 6 of the Aadhaar (Sharing of Information) Regulations says: The Aadhaar number of an individual shall not be published, displayed or posted publicly by any person or entity or agency….
Mossack Fonseca founders still under arrest as Panama Papers firm quits New Zealand
I haven’t provided any updates on this in a while, but Neil Camilleri provides a good update to events in the Panama Papers case on The Malta Independent. Did you know that Mossack and Fonseca had been arrested three weeks ago? The arrests, in Panama City, were linked to Brazil’s so-called ‘Operation Car Wash’ which exposed massive…
Turkish suspect identified in Vienna airport cyber attack
The Local reports that a failed cyber attack on Vienna airport last year has been traced back to a Turkish man living in Kentucky. Arslan A., also known as Osman T. or General Osman, has a military background in Turkey. […] In a tweet last September, the hacker group “Aslan Neferler Tim” or “Lion Soldiers Team”…